Gale Norton in Slacks - Dirk's Dirty Money

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http://www.counterpunch.com/


After serving for five years as Interior Secretary in the Bush Cabinet, Gale Norton, protégé of James Watt, quietly stepped down from her post overseeing the ruination of the American West.

Norton's sudden exit was almost certainly hastened by the widening fallout from the corruption probes into Jack Abramoff and his retinue of clients and the politicians and bureaucrats he held on retainer. Abramoff, it will be recalled, performed some of his most extravagant shakedowns of clients, many of them destitute Indian tribes, seeking indulgences from the Interior Department.

(I've edited this 1st paragraph to leave a space after 'American West.' a space for time to digest that first sentence.)


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And that's how Dirk Kempthorne, one of the most environmentally hostile visigoths in the West, came to occupy the office once inhabited by the legendary swindler Albert Fall.

Kempthorne should feel right at home.
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[Southsideirish]

1. Its articles like this that make me want to scream, pull out my hair,

throw up - from every corner they just keep coming and coming - how can we fight them? They are clunk headed, audacious miscreants who see us in their headlights and run right over us laughing and tossing their filthy garbage out the window and we are stuck with the vile swine for the foreseeable future.